Okay, so, I was looking through the Buddhist teachings about what he called Yafa Sababena, which is the word he used, the phrase he used to describe the default minds, the mind that is sort of the what the

Buddha called untrained the normal mind that we're all born into.

It's interesting because he uses a word

in conjunction with the default state of the mind and in neuroscience it's

called default mode network often. The Buddha uses the word Baya, which means fear and vulnerable.

And the Buddha seems to indicate that there's some underlying inherent tendency for us to be frightened, vulnerable.

One word he uses, capacity I believe believe has linked to like being breakable like a twig. The Buddha is basically saying

there's something in our nature that makes us feel more vulnerable, frightened, fearful

than we actually need be.

It's very wrapped up in the core human suffering that is Dukka. Now in philosophy philosophers have for a long time linked our core fears, the human fear and human suffering.

As a result of the fact that we are conscious that we're going to die.

Since the early Greeks to many important philosophers like Schopenhauer to the 20th century

existentialists there's been this idea that men and humankind, I should say,

not to general, that humankind's suffering is a direct result of the conscious awareness that human beings have, that we live towards

our own death, that we are going to one day expire. And to this line of thinking, this awareness

is what causes our root fear, our root anxiety.

Now, this might sound very compelling, but there's a lot of reasons why it doesn't really adequately suit the task of explaining the core anxiety of the

the core anxiety of the human condition.

The first is that many, many people live much of their lives

while many people live much of their lives while intellectually aware that

that is going to happen emotionally completely in denial. Many people also are absolutely convinced that

rebirth or heaven or some additional state will wait after death. So many people do not have awareness of death or do not specifically

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